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Certificates of Need (CON)
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Key:
- Active CON Program
Most Favored Nation Bans (MFN)
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Key:
- Ban currently in effect
- Pending legislative ban
Recent Action in Healthcare Markets
SB 1093 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
As introduced, removes the requirement to obtain a certificate of need to establish or relocate certain healthcare facilities or initiate certain healthcare services, except for the initiation of services for a burn unit or organ …
SB 1312 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
As introduced, removes the prohibition on employment of radiologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists, and emergency physicians by hospitals and hospital affiliates
SF 304 – Iowa
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
This bill aims to regulate noncompete covenants – agreements that restrict employees from working for a competing employer for a certain period after leaving their current jobs – by putting certain restrictions. For instance, if …
SF 426 – Iowa
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
This bill aims to regulate noncompete covenants (agreements restricting an employee from working for competitors or starting a similar business post-employment) involving nurses. Noncompete covenants for nurses making less than 150% of the minimum wage …
HB 0055 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
As introduced, removes the ability of a health insurance carrier to disregard an insured’s assignment of health insurance benefits to an out-of-network facility-based physician under certain conditions.
HB 0584 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: Enacted
As enacted, authorizes a hospital, or an affiliated entity of the hospital, to employ an emergency physician to treat patients at a satellite emergency department, or a physician to treat patients at a primary care …
HB 0966 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status:
As introduced, removes the requirement to obtain a certificate of need to establish or relocate certain healthcare facilities or initiate certain healthcare services, except for the initiation of services for a burn unit or organ …
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Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
As introduced, removes the requirement to obtain a certificate of need to establish or relocate certain healthcare facilities or initiate certain healthcare services, except for the initiation of services for a burn unit or organ …
SB 1312 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
As introduced, removes the prohibition on employment of radiologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists, and emergency physicians by hospitals and hospital affiliates
SF 304 – Iowa
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
This bill aims to regulate noncompete covenants – agreements that restrict employees from working for a competing employer for a certain period after leaving their current jobs – by putting certain restrictions. For instance, if …
SF 426 – Iowa
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
This bill aims to regulate noncompete covenants (agreements restricting an employee from working for competitors or starting a similar business post-employment) involving nurses. Noncompete covenants for nurses making less than 150% of the minimum wage …
HB 0055 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: In Process
As introduced, removes the ability of a health insurance carrier to disregard an insured’s assignment of health insurance benefits to an out-of-network facility-based physician under certain conditions.
HB 0584 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status: Enacted
As enacted, authorizes a hospital, or an affiliated entity of the hospital, to employ an emergency physician to treat patients at a satellite emergency department, or a physician to treat patients at a primary care …
HB 0966 – Tennessee
Introduced: 2024 Status:
As introduced, removes the requirement to obtain a certificate of need to establish or relocate certain healthcare facilities or initiate certain healthcare services, except for the initiation of services for a burn unit or organ …
Next | See all Legislation Records
FTC v. HCA Healthcare & Steward Health Care – Utah
District Court: District of Utah Status: Pending
HCA Healthcare, the second largest health system with six hospitals in the Wasatch Front region of Utah, proposed to acquire five hospitals from Steward Health …
Saint Francis Hospital v. Hartford HealthCare – Connecticut
District Court: District of Connecticut Status: Pending
In February 2021, Saint Francis Hospital sued Hartford HealthCare, one of two major health systems in Connecticut, alleging that Hartford’s physician practice acquisitions and resulting …
Federal Trade Commission and State of Rhode Island v. Lifespan and Care New England Health – Rhode Island
District Court: District of Rhode Island Status: Decided
Rhode Island’s two largest nonprofit hospital systems, Lifespan and Care New England, abandoned their merger plans in the face of a joint antitrust challenge from …
United States and State of Minnesota and State of New York v. UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare – Minnesota, New York
District Court: District of Columbia Status: Decided
The DOJ, along with attorneys general of New York and Minnesota, filed a lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia to block UnitedHealth …
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District Court: District of Utah Status: Pending
HCA Healthcare, the second largest health system with six hospitals in the Wasatch Front region of Utah, proposed to acquire five hospitals from Steward Health …
Saint Francis Hospital v. Hartford HealthCare – Connecticut
District Court: District of Connecticut Status: Pending
In February 2021, Saint Francis Hospital sued Hartford HealthCare, one of two major health systems in Connecticut, alleging that Hartford’s physician practice acquisitions and resulting …
Federal Trade Commission and State of Rhode Island v. Lifespan and Care New England Health – Rhode Island
District Court: District of Rhode Island Status: Decided
Rhode Island’s two largest nonprofit hospital systems, Lifespan and Care New England, abandoned their merger plans in the face of a joint antitrust challenge from …
United States and State of Minnesota and State of New York v. UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare – Minnesota, New York
District Court: District of Columbia Status: Decided
The DOJ, along with attorneys general of New York and Minnesota, filed a lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia to block UnitedHealth …
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